Improvement in paper fans



NI'IED ST CHARLES C. E. SCHWARTZ, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANlA.

IMPROVEMENT IN PAPER FANS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 163,266, dated May 11,1875; application filed January 8, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHAS. G. E. SCHWARTZ, of the city and county ofPhiladelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Paper Fans; and I do hereby declare the following to be aclear and exact description of the nature thereof, sufficient to enableothers skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to fullyunderstand, make, and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings making part of this specification, in which Figurel is a face view of the blank from which the body of the fan isconstructed. Fig. 2 is a face view, and Fig. 3 a side view, showingsuccessive operations. Fig. 4 is a face view of the'i'an. Fig. 5 is aside-edge view thereof.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the severalfigures.

My invention consists in forming the body of the fan of a flutedcircular disk, which is constructed of a strip of paper of quadrilateralform, crimped or fluted, and united at its ends, in combination with ahandle made of two strips of pasteboard, which are secured at one end tothe center and sides of the circular disk or body of the fan-at theother end to each other.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a strip of paper, which is ofquadrilateral form, and constitutes the blank of which the fan is made.This strip A is subjected to a crimpsents the handle of the fan, thesame being constructed of two strips, (3 G, of card or pasteboard. Thesetwo strips are arranged and secured coincident on each side of the bodyof the fan from center a to circumferenceb, and extend beyond thecircumference, so as to form a grasping-surface, c, the portions of thestrips constituting which being likewise secured together.

It will thus. be seen that the body of the fan cannot open or resume theconical shape shown in Fig. 3, owing to the embrace of the strips of thehandle at the center of said body. It will also be seen that the centerof the body B is equal in thickness to the depth of the flutes, thelatter preferably decreasing as they approach the circumference i) ofthe disk, whereby the center of the body causes the latter to be greatlystrengthened at said center, which, being connected to the handle, isthe point liable to bend or break.

The circumference b of the body'is stretched or taut, the result offlattening the cone, Fig. 3, and thus said circumference or outer edgeis strong. Moreover, the strips 0, embracing the body B from center tocircumference, stifien said body, and it will be found that with all theother features presented the body, though made of paper, and light,possesses considerable strength,will render appreciable service, and canbe produced at a very small expense.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

As a new article of manufacture, the paper fan herein shown anddescribed,the same consisting of the circular fluted disk B, formed of aflattened truncated cone constructed of a quadrilateral piece of paper,crimped and united at its ends, in combination with the handle 0,consisting of two strips,0, of pasteboard, secured to each other and tothe disk, all as set forth.

OH. O. E. SGHVVARTZ.

Witnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, ALBERT H. HOEOKLEY.

